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• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
• If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
• Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is,…
• I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking…
• APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.
• Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because…
• The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely…
• Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.
• In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they…
• The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.
• We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty,…

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